Editor's Note: Abe Lincoln Rallied Good Citizens

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IS New Haven really going to sidestep the U.S. Constitution and laws that stretch from the nation's farthest borders to our nearest police center? Are we going to have a different answer than Connecticut's other 168 towns in handling the national confusion about a workable immigration policy?

On a recent radio broadcast, I heard word of an Abraham Lincoln speech that dealt - almost two centuries ago in 1838, when New Haven was 200 years old - with questions like those above.

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Editor's Note: Abe Lincoln Rallied Good Citizens

I looked over the Lincoln shelf in my bookcase and, sure enough, there was the "Literary Works of Abraham Lincoln," as edited by Carl Van Doren.

This speech was made to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill....

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